Robbie Foust wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Has anyone ever set up a Windows Media Server to point to content in AFS
> using the windows client?  Just wondering how well that would work or
> how reliable it would be.  I know the windows client is *much* more
> stable now than it has been in the past.  Our other option is to connect
> the servers to a san (which we already have).

The question is how much bandwidth do you require and how large a cache?

The 32-bit Windows client is limited to about 1GB of cache.  For a media
server you probably want a much larger cache.  The 64-bit Windows client
can support much much larger caches provided you have enough RAM on the
machine.  I've tested with a 12GB cache on a machine with 1GB of RAM.
I know there are problems at 20GB on a 1GB machine because the swapping
is too great.  However, a 60GB cache on a machine with 8GB RAM should
work quite nicely.

Jeffrey Altman

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